Sapphire v6 for After Effects and compatible products

The installer below is for use with all AE compatible products including After Effects and Premiere Pro.

For Final Cut Pro or Motion, please use the FxPlug version instead.

To Download and install:

1. Make sure you have one or more AE plug-in compatible applications on a Mac with an Intel CPU and MacOS 10.5 or greater.
   If you have an older version of Sapphire Plug-ins, the new installation will replace it, and you do not need to un-install it first.
2. Quit AE or other host applications that may be running.
3. Download the 6.04 Mac installer for 10.5 and above (83 Mb)
4. Run the installer. When it asks for your passphrase, enter your Mac user login password, and follow the instructions given by the installer.
5. Restart your host product, and the new plug-ins should appear in your effects menu.

To view on-line documentation after you install the software, go to the /Applications/GenArtsSapphireAE folder and double click on Online Help.html or Online Help.pdf. You can also click on the "About" box while using any plug-in.

In general, you can load projects saved with Sapphire v1 or v2 or v5 effects and they should automatically convert to use Sapphire v6. Please visit the support page for more info on this.

If you require Sapphire v1 you can use the version 1.10 installer. If you require Sapphire v2 you can use the version 2.093 installer. If you already installed Sapphire v6 and want to go back to an older version you should first uninstall v6.

For Sapphire version 5, go to the v5 download page instead.

New in 6.04:

• Fixed a minor rendering artifact with warps on the GPU.
• Lensflare: texture elements now render at the original image aspect ratio, instead of stretching to become square.

New in 6.03:

• Corrected the gamma for lens flares in the Preset Browser.
• Fixed a problem with Deband on Mac.
• Fixed a bug in Clouds and many texture effects where the shift direction was flipped vertically.
• Improved render performance for the default lensflare
• Lensflare now correctly applies gamma to custom texture elements

New in 6.02:

• Point params are now set correctly when loading or saving a preset while the viewer is downsampled.
• The Preset Browser should now launch more quickly and be more responsive overall.
• Flare Designer: the Auto Rotate option now works for elements positioned at the pivot.
• Flare Designer: complex flares now load faster and take less space when saved.
• LensFlare: fixed a bug where Rays Rotate incorrectly affected Texture and Polygon elements.

New in 6.01:

• Preset Browser now launches somewhat faster and is more responsive while starting up.
• Improved preview of Flashbulbs in the Preset Browser
• Flare Designer: adjusting the Rotate property now works correctly when multiple elements are selected.
• Flare Designer no longer scrolls to the top of the element list when deleting an element.
• Flare Designer: fixed a bug where display gamma was inverted.
• Fixed a bug in Glint that would cause incorrect renders with very large widths.
• LaserBeam now renders faster on systems that support GPU processing.
• Fixed a bug in LaserBeam that caused cropping when width is greater than length.
• Fixed image corruption DissolveAutoPaint
• LensFlare: Diffraction Glow now respects the Combine mode setting.
• LensFlare: fixed aliasing artifacts in Spot, Ring, and Polygon elements.
• LensFlare: fixed rendering artifacts in diagonal Rays elements.
• LensFlare: Edge Triggers now work correctly on Mac.
• Partially worked around a bug in Premiere Pro CS 5.5 that creates extra keyframes when scrubbing in the timeline.

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